Each of us is a spiritual soul distinct from Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, an infinitesimal fragment and integral part of His Divine Person. Therefore, we must understand that, being a part of the Whole, God, the fragment can never claim to one day become the Supreme. Rather, this should be seen as an indication that the soul conditioned by matter and illusory energy falls victim to the ultimate trap of illusory energy, which makes it believe that it is God.
To lead the conditioned being, which each of us is, in this world governed by matter, to claim to be one with the cosmic consciousness of the Lord, is the last stratagem used by illusory energy to cause its downfall.
Therefore, conceiving of the self as separate from the Supreme Self, the Supreme Lord, Krishna, is also an illusion, and when the distinct being comes to claim that he himself is the Lord, know that this is the ultimate illusion, the last trap set by maya, the illusory energy or external energy of God.
The Lord affirms that the foolish, the demoniac beings who refuse to admit His existence, sink ever deeper into the darkness of ignorance and thus reincarnate, life after life, without the slightest knowledge of His Person.
The Lord says: That which seems to have some value, but has no connection with Me, know that it has no reality. It is only My illusory energy, a reflection in the darkness.
Know that the elements that compose the universe enter into the cosmos while not entering it. Similarly, I exist in all that is created, and simultaneously, I am outside of all things.
In truth, during all phases of cosmic manifestation; Its appearance, its maintenance, its growth, the interactions of its various energies, its decline and its disappearance—everything rests on the existence of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.
Therefore, when this fundamental relationship of all things with the Lord is forgotten, and what has no connection with Him is considered real, such a concept is considered to originate from the Lord's illusory energy.
To support this truth, the Lord says: There is nothing that exists outside of Me; this is what you must clearly understand. Nothing is separate from My Person. The entire cosmic manifestation rests within Me; it is not separate from My Person. Before creation, I already existed.
Because nothing can exist outside of Him, it must be admitted that illusory energy is indeed an energy of the Lord. The energy of union is the correct concept by which one sees all things in relation to the Lord, while His energy of illusion is characterized by considering something independently of its relationship with the Lord.
However, because nothing can exist independently or separately from Him, these two mayas are necessarily linked to God, to His Person. Nevertheless, the erroneous concept of dissociating from the Lord that which exists only in relation to His Person is not false, but illusory.